Work Ant Poems

I know your fastest movement
You're social; you live in groups
In hard work your time you spend
In Concord, you move in troops...!

I cannot, yet, fully grasp
Why...

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Great loss of heads and ideas
Furious masses on a hungry mandate
Changing systems and false-truth ideas
The journey of a narrow candidate

Failed promises stirring sun-shot screams
While every...

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Once upon a time, 
an ant who had long made his home at the root of a tree 
asked to be assigned to work among...

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Ant Hill
nest mound built by 
ants, kneading, gathering, stack
Unit’s colonies eusocial
colonies of nesting






5/19/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Pensee Poetry Type...

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I refuse to work today said the miserable ant
As he began to hoist the heaviest crackers
onto his broken, torn sensitive back
startling his comrades who reported...

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Look at the ant, don't be a sluggard
They are small but lift many times their weight
Pursue your biggest dream, no task is too small or...

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She was expecting a moth or a housefly.
Her cobweb had taken her all day
but she didn't know what days were
all she knew was hunger.
Flying insects...

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It's not a good day,
I'll have to regroup,
I feel like I have,
a shark in my soup.

It's one of those days,
when everything's wrong,
a lion has roared,
and...

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When I was a young child I studied ants 
I loved their formation on ground and plants.
Like tiny soldiers lined, disciplined well,
They worked hard all...

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I once sat and observed the movements of an ant as he moved across my bathroom floor. He was headed in one direction, and for...

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Worker ant.
Hills of sand grains it climbs over
with bread crumb into hole....

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I WISH I WEREN’T AN ANT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



I wish I weren’t an ant, my survival rate is scant
Done in by a pesticide, or a shoe,...

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You humans walk about with ease 
With no care nor mere concern
Where every step could maim or kill
And pilage upon return

Whether consciously or unaware 
Your...

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A fly and ant, upon a sunny bank,
Discuss'd the question of their rank.
'O Jupiter!' the former said,
'Can love of self so turn the head,
That one...

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Handicapped Ant

Five legged ant walks awkwardly into obstacles
Around rocks, gravel, while stumbling to the field
Peculiar, odd, not in a normal way by any stretch
Strangely staggering,...

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